Rebecca's fine art work can be found at https://rebeccarixmeoart.com/
Working with plaster, earth, botanical elements, and found organic forms, Rebecca creates pieces that feel both unearthed and preserved, capturing fragile moments that might otherwise disappear.
Rooted in the surrounding landscape, from Essex estuary mudflats to Suffolk hedgerows, her practice is shaped by natural processes such as erosion, growth, decay, and weathering.
Alongside these themes, Rebecca creates historical interior works inspired by the faded grandeur of country houses, palaces, sacred spaces, and architectural fragments. Drawing upon decorative plasterwork, aged surfaces, and imagined histories, these pieces evoke the atmosphere of lost interiors and forgotten rooms.
Through casting, Rebecca preserves delicate and transient forms. Often executed outside using mud and sand as a canvas —wings, animal tracks, seed heads, fragments of plant life, and architectural impressions—holding them in a state between presence and absence.
Rebecca's work invites a slower way of looking—an attention to detail, material, and the quiet beauty of what remains.
Trained in natural history and scientific illustration and later Botanical art Rebecca now works out of her studio in central Suffolk, she exhibits nationally and her historical interiors work can be found at The Red Dot Gallery, Holt.
Rebecca Rix-Meo is the great-great-granddaughter of Gaetano Meo (1849–1925) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Meo, the Italian-British artist, mosaicist and craftsman associated with the Pre-Raphaelite circle. While her practice is distinctly contemporary, it continues a family legacy of craftsmanship through historic decorative techniques.
In 2026 Rebecca Rix-Meo is a finalist in thehttps://davidshepherd.org/wildlife-art/competitions/wildlife-artist-of-the-year/ David Shepherd wildlife of the year awards for her work with the Common Buzzard.
Now in 2026/27 I offer workshops to share my love of the art all through East Anglia including NT Flatford Mill, RHS Hyde Hall, NT Blickling Hall. Suffolk and Essex wildlife trusts, Beth Chattos Gardens and Cambridge Botanical gardens these can be found on my facebook site hopecottagebotanicalarts
Email. you can contact Rebecca through https://rebeccarixmeoart.com/
